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I'd like to see Grievous fight himself. That way he'd chop himself up to pieces, which would certainly bring me nothing but joy as I hate the shitty character.
To put things more succinctly:
unamochilla2 said:
I'm having trouble getting past that boy, Erza, looking like a CGI version of Aladdin.
I'm having trouble getting past that he has the same name I do.
Oh, and it's "Ezra" not "Erza". =P
I'm still amazed by how Lucas managed to wring such a poor performance out of Lee, an actor who's good even in utter pieces of crap like Howling II. The man has to be incredibly talented at being talentless to have pulled that off successfully.
As I am currently posting from an alternate timeline where Thanksgiving is celebrated on July 17th, I am completely free to post here to my heart's content.
The discussion on this thread is reminding me of the Kryptonian Clone Wars from the early post-Crisis Superman comics of the '80s, which itself was caused by issues over clone rights.
Over 100,000 years ago, Krypton had already developed scientific advancements far beyond those of present-day Earth, and within a few millennia had conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning; vast banks of non-sentient clones held multiple copies of each living Kryptonian so that replacement parts were always available in the case of injury. All Kryptonians were effectively immortal, "with all the strength and vigor of youth maintained," and enjoyed an idyllic, sensual existence in an Arcadian paradise.
However, this society was tipping toward decadence and eventually political strife that resulted from the debate as to whether clones should have rights (sparked by the presence of an alien missionary known as The Cleric). Eventually this disagreement led to open violent conflict, especially after it was openly discovered that a woman's cloned copy of herself was allowed to gain full sentience and to establish a full, normal life. However, when a young man (the original woman's son) had discovered that his fiance was this clone, he killed the clone and then publicly killed his mother, and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped. This key incident ignited the Clone Wars, during which Kryptonian science was turned to warfare and several super-weapons were developed and used. Among them was the device known as the Destroyer.
Although the Eradicator's effects (altering the DNA of all Kryptonian lifeforms so that they would instantly die upon leaving the planet) were felt immediately, the Destroyer's effects were possibly more significant: by the time the Kryptonian government admitted defeat and abolished the clone banks, a pro-clone rights terrorist faction known as Black Zero had started the Destroyer, a device which functioned as a giant nuclear gun, projecting massive streams of nuclear energy into the core of Krypton, intended to trigger an explosive chain reaction within Krypton's core almost immediately.
At the time, it was believed that although the use of the Destroyer resulted in a nuclear explosion which eliminated the post-Crisis city of Kandor, the device had been stopped before it could achieve planetary destruction (ironically, by an ancestor of Jor-El himself), but centuries later Jor-El would discover that the reaction had only been slowed to a nearly imperceptible rate and would eventually destroy the planet as intended.
With a few adjustments, I could see that same basic story working within the SW Universe.
This forum still needs to be nerder than it is.
Maybe if I write some erotic fanfiction of me having sexual escapades with various superheroines and post them in the re-writing section ...
^It forms an arrow, an arrow which points toward my dresser, a dresser upon which rest my TV and my toothbrush.
This site is owned and operated by Freemasons, isn't it?
In my canon, it's basically a mix. Just like Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Orthodox, etc. clergymen have their own denomination-specific regalia in the real world, the different factions of Jedi in my universe all wear their own distinctive garb (or no distinctive garb whatsoever; independent Jedi tend to dress casually).
There is an exception to this rule, though, in regards to Jedi who serve in the Imperial military. All Jedi officers have to wear red uniforms similar to this one
when on active duty regardless of which sect they belong to.
gizzy2000 said:
my point is that pretty much all the characters who didn't have a name when the OT came out (regardless of whether it's said on screen or not) ended up getting completely weird names, and I do think it was the prequels that started this.
The PT may have kicked the stupid naming convention into overdrive, but stupid Star Wars names were being used long before TPM was released. According to Wookieepedia, the name "Ponda Baba" originates from the first edition of Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, which was published in '89.
Hell, if you really wanna be brutally honest, "Mon Mothma", "Salacious Crumb", and "Porkins" are all stupid names, too, and they all come from the OT.
^Chalk it up to typical fanboy "everything-has-to-be-canon-so-that-it's-all-real-and-all-matters" mentality.
bkev said:
I just read this and rather enjoyed it. I only hope that the teased sequel on the last page is something Disney would be interested in publishing. My guess is that it was done merely in the spirit of pulp fiction rather than a genuine plan, but who knows? With Dark Horse no longer holding the license for comic publishing I doubt we'll see it. Still, I can hope.
Rinzler could always pitch the idea to Disney and see if they go for it. Hopefully, they won't be opposed to new out-of-continuity storylines co-existing alongside their new streamlined canon.
I'm glad that scene of Luke constructing his lightsaber was cut from ROTJ. Not only would it have been a lame way to introduce his new green-bladed weapon, but Vader's dialogue to Luke is just an uninspired rehash of his dialogue to Luke from the end of TESB.
Jaitea said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
01.54.31 where The Emperor first zaps look.
What sort of look is a 'Emperor first zaps look'.......I want one of them!
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Looks like a "I just had a satisfying bowel movement" sort of look to me. ;-P
gizzy2000 said:
I hope the new minor characters have cool names again, like Biggs Darklighter or Boba Fett or Max Rebo. I feel like as time went on all the background characters started getting completely stupid sounding names, like how they changed Walrus Man's name to "Ponda Baba".
"Walrus man" is more of a descriptor than an in-universe name, so I don't really think they "changed" it, but whatever.
Even Piell, Kit Fisto, Yarael Poof... Who the f#ck came up with these names?
You forgot my personal favourite -- Elan Sleazebaggano.
There's also the characters like Wolfman and Walrus Man who everyone knows by those names.
Truth be told, I except for "Wolfman" and "Hammerhead", I was ignorant of all those cantina aliens' informal names for years. It's only relatively recently I learned most of them.
Ah, well, the Jedi Order of the PT is a cult, and cults definately like getting them when they're young and impressionable.
Luke's New Jedi Order vs. Exar Kun's Sith Brotherhood.
It's best to not bother trying to make sense of the PT. Leave that to the PT fanboys and saga chauvinists who actually like those shitty movies.
gizzy2000 said:
I don't necessarily care about the colors of lightsabers themselves, but I'm tired of all bad guys having red lightsabers, and especially tired of them all being named "Darth", I don't know what the EU says, but in Star Wars Darth just seemed like Vader's first name, but now it's an official bad guy title. I'm just glad the prequels never directly commented on the red lightsaber, because i remember in a behind the scenes interview for Ep. II Sam Jackson was chatting with Lucas about lightsaber colors and George said, "Well, good guys are green and blue, and bad guys are red..."
He should pay the price for his lack of vision.
For someone who's studied anthropology and been exposed to the cultural ideas of various peoples around the globe, Lucas seems deadset against moving beyond the tired tropes and cliches of the western world.
Here's hoping Episode VII and the the following sequels will evolve the universe beyond George's lame "black hats, white hats" vision.
^If an organization's in charge instead of parents/other guardians, it smacks too much of brainwashing.
I'm disappointed noone's said "secrets" yet.
Round to the nearest whole number -- duh! =P
Mike O said:
Fuji is dead and Kodak will be by the end of the year.
Fixed. =P
